It's been blowing it's top off all day today, up to 40 knots as the front rolled through. Now there is only a light westerly, the least wind we've had for 9 days. Maybe we can sleep tonight without worrying about the boat!

Quite a bit of drama today when a 61 foot yacht called "Jungle," an Oyster, went on a small reef right at the bottom of the Lau group, 150 nm north of us. They set off an epirb and all the boats including us were instructed by RCC in NZ to be ready to give assistance. One of the Magnet boats was actually told to sail to the epirb location, which was a bit of an ask. An Orion was scrambled from Auckland and flew overhead to go and find it. The boat, we discovered later, was definitely wrecked, but the four crew managed to get ashore on the little coral cay only to discover there were 3 Fijians already on the island!

The incident does highlight the problem with using electronic charts for passage planning. Small obstructions don't necessarily show up as they might do on a paper chart. This is the second yacht wreck in the Lau so far this season.

We should be off tomorrow after a long rather boring wait.